Church Happenings November 8 - 15
Today / 9:00 am / Finance Class / Hall
9:15 am / Sunday School
10:30 am / Worship / Sanctuary
11:30 am / Veterans Luncheon / Hall
Mon. / 6:00 pm / Senior High Youth Group / Hall
6:30 pm / Choir Practice / Sanctuary
8:00 pm / Little League / Adult Lounge
Tues. / 7:00 pm / Tai Chi / Hall
Wed. / Veterans Day
6:30 pm / Kairos Meeting / Hall
7:00 pm / Cookie Fundraiser Meeting / Conference Room
Thurs. / 6:30 pm / Session / Hall
Fri. / 1:30 pm / Neuro-Restorative / Hall
Sat. / 10:00 am / Tai Chi / Nursery
5:30 pm / Getz Party / Hall
Sun. / 9:00 am / Finance Class / Hall
9:15 am / Sunday School
10:30 am / Worship / Sanctuary
6:00 pm / Youth Group / Hall
AA Meetings – Mabel Cole Hall
Monday – Saturday / AA / 12 pm
Monday / AA / 6:30 pm
Monday / NA / 8 pm
Wednesday / AA / 8 pm
Friday / AA / 8 pm
Saturday / AA / 9 am
Saturday / AA / 8 pm

Sunday, November 8, 2015

“Love Grows Here”

Fairview Presbyterian Church

4264 Avonia Road P.O. Box 340

Fairview, PA 16415

814-474-3914

November8, 2015

PRELUDE

JOYS AND CONCERNS

PARISH PRAYER

RINGING OF THE BELL

CALL TO WORSHIP Savanah Dieter, Ben Fugate, Steve Marn

READER 1: Fourteen billion years ago

READER 2: BANG!

READER 3: And not just a bang

READER 1: THE Bang!

READER 2: The biggest bang to ever bang

READER 3: Maybe the bang began in this moment…

READER 1: Maybe the universe had its start with…

READER 2: And God spoke saying,

READER 3: “Let there be light!”

PEOPLE: And there was light.

READER 1: And now

READER 2: A universe so big

READER 3: That it is quite beyond imagination

READER 1: One hundred billion galaxies

READER 2: Uncountable stars and planets

READER 3: And maybe, scientists think that maybe

PEOPLE: Maybe what?

READER 1: Maybe there are more universes than ours

READER 2: Unbelievable!

READER 3: Mind bending

READER 1: And here we are

READER 2: Living on a tiny little blue dot

READER 3: In a little corner of one universe

PEOPLE: Small hardly begins to describe us

READER 1: And yet

READER 2: God…

READER 3: The truly inconceivable intelligence

READER 1: Who created all the universes

READER 2: Who simply spoke, and it was…

READER 3: And yet this astonishingly big being

PEOPLE: Calls us beloved!

READER 1: So let us bow down

READER 2: On bended knee

READER 3: With fitting humility

PEOPLE: And worship!

CHORAL ANTHEM

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

READER 1: But what if I have questions?

PEOPLE: Like what?

READER 1: Like, If God is love why all the hatred?

READER 2: If God is so powerful, why not stop the killing?

READER 3: If God is perfect, what happened to us?

PEOPLE: God is bigger than all our questions.

READER 1: And what if I have doubts?

PEOPLE: What kind of doubts?

READER 1: Like does “God” really exist?

READER 2: Is God really there?

READER 3: Does God really care?

PEOPLE: Our doubts don’t erase God

READER 1: And what if I wonder

PEOPLE: What do you wonder?

READER 1: I am important at all,

READER 2: If I have anything to offer,

READER 3: If anyone can love me.

PEOPLE: Our wonderings and our wanderings

Can never separate us from God’s love.

RESPONSE HYMN #25“Immortal, Invisible”

GREETING TIME

CHILDREN’S TIME

MINUTE FOR STEWARDSHIP Attorney Jim Marsh

OFFERING OFFERTORY Jasmine Lewis

PRAYER FOR FAITHFUL HEARING

SCRIPTURE LESSONEcclesiastes 5:18-20 - NIV

SELAHSydney Nelson

SCRIPTURE LESSON Matthew 22:34-40 – The Message

SERMON Mr. Jake Tobolewski preaching

Jenna Deiter, Leo Hughes, Dan Paden, Megan Whitman

CLOSING HYMN #63“All Creatures of Our God and King”

vs’ 1 & 2

Snow Removal

Help is needed removing snow off the sidewalks and entrance ways during the week (daytime hours) and Sunday mornings before Church. If anyone is able to help, please call Amy at the office.

Christmas Cookie Sale

Our annual Cookie Tray Fundraiser has begun! A tray of 5 dozen assorted Christmas cookies is $20. There is a sign-up sheet and envelopes on the table in the Lobby. (We are not using the forms.) Please sign your name and how many trays you would like. Please leave your money in an envelope with your name on it either in the offering basket or on Amy’s desk. Orders need to be in by

December 6, and PREPAID.

WE NEED BAKERS!!!

There is also a sign-up sheet for help baking the cookies. Please sign your name, the kind you would like to make, and how many. If there are any questions, please call Edie Leuscen at 474-2851.Thank you for your help!!!

Care Packages

The Sunday School classes will once again send out Christmas care packages to college students and people in the military. If you have a student or serviceman, please contact Linda Tobolewski at 774-9706, or . with the name and address.

Golden Girls

The Golden Girls will meet Tuesday, November 17 at Butch’s Restaurant

at 5:15 pm.

Thank You to Our Volunteers

Coffee Cart – Edie Leuschen

Greeters –Leo & Austin Hughes & Fred Ralph

Sound System – Rich Foland

Nursery –Rebecca Church & the Ferringer Family

Pledge Cards

Just a reminder to please return your pledge cards ASAP. If you did not receive yours in the mail, please see Amy for them. It is important for the Administration Committee to have these to prepare the budget for next year. Thank you!

Please Claim Your Pans!

There are pie and salad pans left from the Harvest Dinner in the room adjacent to the Conference Room. Please pick yours up!

Janet Harvey

Janet Harvey, a longtime member who moved to Pittsburgh, turned 91 on Friday! If you would like to send her a card, her address is:

1050 McNeilly Road, Apt. 418

Pittsburgh, PA 15226

Church Cookbook

Our new cookbook has 250 delicious recipes!! The cost is $10, and can be purchased after church or during the week at the office. It will make a great Christmas or wedding gift! Get them beforethey are gone!